Word: firetrap
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Before Schenectady became The Electric City the new General Electric quarters there were a firetrap. No Smoking signs were placed around. Enraged, Steinmetz marched home, sent a note: "No smoking, no Steinmetz." Result: thereafter he alone smoked...
...thorough. New hardwood floors, a feature of the remodeling program, have replaced the worn boards that used to creak with the footsteps of the great. Steel staircases have been installed in place of their noisy wooden predecessors, and this step is expected to do much towards eliminating the old "firetrap" hazard. To the students living in these halls, the improvement is decidedly welcome. For "the old order changeth, yielding place to new," and where 1927 sat amidst the reeking traditions of its predecessors, 1928 will enjoy the comforts of a modern hotel...
George V of England: " A royal commission pronounced Buckingham Palace a firetrap with its labyrinth of draughty hallways, inflammable partitions, old-fashioned wiring and heating installations, spoke of it as ' fraught with peril.' The Palace, like all English Government buildings, is not insured...